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Lived Experiences Of Parents With Transgender And Gender Expansive Children, Mary Kathryn Brammer
Lived Experiences Of Parents With Transgender And Gender Expansive Children, Mary Kathryn Brammer
Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs
Parents of transgender and gender expansive (TGE) children can be recognized as a marginalized community often not represented or visible in the context of Westernized society. They experience significant challenges that impact their job as primary caregivers and burden their ability to raise healthy and happy TGE people. This research, guided by Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis methodology and Queer theory, aimed to discern parents of TGE children’s subjective and collective experience raising a TGE child in New Mexico, understand how they experience a support group each participant has attended at least one time, and recognize the significance of these experiences for …